Doted by Many: I became the Top-Tier Celebrity!-Chapter 419 - 418: Perhaps They’re Related by Blood?
Loomis Hughes frowned, looking deeply hurt, "You think I’m pretending?"
"I overheard your conversation with someone else in the bathroom. You wanted my reputation to be ruined, so how could you suddenly start liking me? Mr. Hughes, you really are unpredictable."
Her mocking tone shocked Loomis Hughes.
She actually heard?
Then she used the situation to her advantage and lured him into her trap.
"I never like to waste words. Tell me, who is the person behind you trying to hurt me?"
After being exposed, Loomis Hughes’s face flushed red with shame, and he remained silent, unsure of what to say.
Tiana Thorne smirked playfully, "Weren’t you just looking at me affectionately a moment ago? What happened to change that?"
To him, her words were a huge affront, making his cheeks burn as if he’d been slapped hard.
It dawned on him belatedly that his previous actions were like those of a buffoon.
Tiana licked her lips, her voice low and dangerously cold, "Do you think by staying silent, I won’t know who it is?"
"I’ve already said, it’s all my doing, it has nothing to do with anyone else." Loomis Hughes looked at her, stubbornly clinging to this statement.
"Don’t take me for a fool. Just now, when you entered, the anticipation and then disappointment in your eyes couldn’t be faked. Could this mastermind actually come and see you?"
Hearing this, Loomis Hughes’s back stiffened, his face turning a bit pale.
"Let me think, who could this person be?"
Tiana’s indifferent voice was like a knife, torturing him relentlessly.
"Oh, it must be a woman."
Sure enough, she saw a flicker in Loomis Hughes’s eyes, which quickly returned to normal. Although it was just a fleeting moment, she saw it clearly.
It really was a woman.
A sly fox, always up to tricks.
She began to deceive him sincerely again, "It doesn’t matter if you don’t say, because I’ll find her out anyway. It’s funny, thinking I wouldn’t notice. Just yesterday, someone came to see you. Loomis Hughes, do you really take me for an idiot?"
Loomis Hughes looked at her in disbelief.
Seeing his expression, Tiana knew she hit the mark, and she subtly smiled, "One person causing harm on purpose, another pulling the strings behind the scenes; without evidence, even if this person is exposed, there’s no way to convict her. She’s banking on that, sending someone to meet you."
"Tiana Thorne, this is all my own doing. If you want revenge, come at me."
"Quite the protector, aren’t you?" Tiana shrugged, "If you won’t admit it, fine. Expect seven years of imprisonment."
Loomis Hughes’s eyes were bloodshot, wanting desperately to hit her, "If you so much as harm her, when I get out of prison, I’ll kill you."
"Really?"
Tiana raised an eyebrow, then laughed softly, her smile mesmerizing and intriguing, "Then I’ll wait for you to come kill me."
Loomis Hughes felt furious and frustrated, unable to vent it.
Seeing him like this, Tiana’s smile grew more enchanting, calmly advising, "No need to rush, don’t get angry. I’m always merciful to women; I wouldn’t take her life, at most make her live the rest of her life in misery."
The implication being, she’d wish she were dead.
Suddenly, Loomis Hughes panicked. He couldn’t gamble; in this world, his only sister was Joyce.
If anything were to happen to Joyce, what would he do?
His voice softened significantly, "What would it take for you to spare her?"
"Naturally, to give her a taste of her own medicine."
"You dare?!" Loomis Hughes glared at her with anger.
Tiana laughed, "Why wouldn’t I dare? Before you made a move against me, why didn’t you consider whether I might dare to?"
Loomis Hughes saw the light in her eyes, mischievous yet radiant; she was capable of doing anything.
Suddenly, he recalled Joyce’s words to him.
Their parents died saving the parents of Aiden Shaw.
Given this, Joyce has a debt from Aiden Shaw, so he would never allow Tiana to mess around.
She absolutely wouldn’t dare oppose Aiden Shaw; that would be courting death.
The debt Aiden Shaw owes their family should be reciprocal devotion; in the future, Joyce is to be the fourth young mistress of the Shaw family, so how could she be retaliated against?
Thinking of this, Loomis Hughes’s agitated heart gradually calmed down, coldly looking at her, "Tiana Thorne, if you really dared to act, you’d have done it already instead of coming here to say all this to me. You don’t dare."
"That sounds familiar. Oh, you said the same thing to me on set before."
Loomis Hughes’s face stiffened; indeed, he had said it, and then she screamed and ran out.
"Maybe this time, you’ll be disappointed again."
After saying this, Tiana stood up, her lips curved in a smile, "Goodbye, don’t miss me. We’ll meet again, I’ll bring you good news then."
Loomis Hughes watched her smile, bloodthirsty and playful, a shiver ran through him.
But he firmly believed that Aiden Shaw would protect Joyce. Without evidence, he wouldn’t believe Joyce harmed her.
Coldly responding, "We’ll never meet again."
Tiana smiled knowingly, "Let’s just wait and see."
Then she turned and walked out, not lingering a moment longer.
As she reached the doorway, her eyes gradually took on a mischievous glint, lazily curving her lips, her demeanor somewhat languid yet carrying a hint of danger.
She roughly knew who was behind Loomis Hughes trying to harm her.
Now she just needed to confirm it.
Playing with her delicate fingers, her smile was bright.
This hand hadn’t slapped a face in a long time, and it was itching to do so this time, to do it well.
"Isaac, let’s go."
"Alright."
Forty minutes later, Tiana Thorne returned to the manor.
From a distance, she saw Uncle Hayes instructing a girl on some matter.
She strode over and politely called, "Uncle Hayes."
"Miss Tiana is back." Uncle Hayes smiled warmly.
"Where’s Joyce Hughes?"
Uncle Hayes’s heart skipped a beat, slightly worried, "Her leg hasn’t healed yet; she’s been staying in her room these days. Does Miss Tiana have something to discuss with her?"
Tiana smiled with great friendliness, not showing at all that she was there for a reckoning, "Yes, it’s a personal matter, but there’s something I want to ask you."
Uncle Hayes slightly frowned, feeling some anxiety.
Could it be that girl did something wrong again?
"Is it convenient to talk now, Uncle Hayes?" Tiana’s voice remained courteous, her smile sweet and innocent.
Uncle Hayes nodded and walked aside with her, then asked, "What’s the matter?"
Tiana squinted her eyes slightly, "I heard that you are Joyce Hughes’s uncle?"
Uncle Hayes’s expression showed a hint of emotion, "Yes."
"When Joyce was very young, her parents died in an accident. Did her parents leave her with any other relatives?"
She had carefully observed Loomis Hughes’s features, which bore some resemblance to Joyce Hughes’s.
Loomis Hughes, Joyce Hughes...
The two had the same surname, maybe, they were related by blood?
